Baby Boomers making out like bandits as usual

ILW

ruggedtoast wrote: »

A classic case of Boomer Hypocrisy. Things have only gone up for you lot, you've passed the pain down to the generation below.

Fancy £50k of debt for a university education (or polytechnic of which there were many pre 1995) and a starter home at 12 times the average graduates salary when you finish? No thought not.

Not that most of you seem to have actually bothered to get any kind of education. As far as I can tell most people over 50 usually laugh when you ask them about qualifications and say they have half an O level in Greek Geography or something, because O Levels back then were of course, 423 times harder than A Levels are now, which is why 3 years of higher education is now the unhappy lot of anyone who so much wants a temp job filing.

Its fine when its other people though isnt it because you can point out they may have the dreadful temerity to have a mobile phone and go on holiday from time to time therefore deserve to have nothing.

Oddly enough, the 20 somethings I know that are now buying their own houses never went to university. The ones that did get degrees are mainly just complaining that they cannot get suitable jobs. It's up to anyone to make the right or wrong decisions though.

abaxas

ILW wrote: »

Things go up and down, just expecting things to get better just leads to disappointment and bitterness.

There is a huge difference between expecting and wanting.

I want things to get better.
I want a better educated populace.
I want people to be able to afford their own homes.
I want people who work to start families.

I dont think it's too much to ask and I'm happy to work/help towards it.

OptionARMAGEDDON

ILW,they face job insecurity and the likelihood of no upward mobility in the housing market for decades. Compare that to what the boomer generation had for 30 years and you may start to understand you are talking crud..

ILW

abaxas wrote: »

There is a huge difference between expecting and wanting.

I want things to get better.
I want a better educated populace.
I want people to be able to afford their own homes.
I want people who work to start families.

I dont think it's too much to ask and I'm happy to work/help towards it.

I want to be 6 inches taller, you don't always get what you want though. As got get a bit older and wiser it is a lesson you learn.

abaxas

ILW wrote: »

I want to be 6 inches taller, you don't always get what you want though. As got get a bit older and wiser it is a lesson you learn.

You have to aim for things you can attain! Or you will always be seen as a fool.

reweird

Any of these man-babies on here never considered that if they spent less time posting their embittered self-entitled boo-hoo poor me nonsense and more time and energy on educating and improving themselves that their lot in life would be better? No one owes you a living. In fact no one owes you anything.

RenovationMan

abaxas wrote: »

My point is and will always be, things should always improve. If as a country we stop wanting that, we are fooked.

Do you not think things have improved since the 60s and 70s?

OptionARMAGEDDON

RenovationMan wrote: »

Do you not think things have improved since the 60s and 70s?

Rm, only for one part of society they have. The weak and thegreedy have. The poor b*ggers who are expected to pay for it all havent. Least of all the young educated middle class.

Which is why the boomers should be sh#t scared. Its this subset that will form the future leadership of the uk and its this subset that will take back its pound of flesh. Think we will be the only ones with delayed retirement? Wait ten years and i bet you aint.

Jimmy_31

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Oh jimmy you drama queen.
How long is going to take to save a deposit for a 60k house?
Gosh I dont know how youll ever manage it :roll eyes: :rotfl:

Now that the houses i am interested in have dropped to 60k and are still dropping it is pretty much safe to say that my house deposit is no longer a house deposit.

Going4TheDream

ruggedtoast wrote: »

A classic case of Boomer Hypocrisy. Things have only gone up for you lot, you've passed the pain down to the generation below.

Fancy £50k of debt for a university education (or polytechnic of which there were many pre 1995) and a starter home at 12 times the average graduates salary when you finish? No thought not.

Not that most of you seem to have actually bothered to get any kind of education. As far as I can tell most people over 50 usually laugh when you ask them about qualifications and say they have half an O level in Greek Geography or something, because O Levels back then were of course, 423 times harder than A Levels are now, which is why 3 years of higher education is now the unhappy lot of anyone who so much wants a temp job filing.

Its fine when its other people though isnt it because you can point out they may have the dreadful temerity to have a mobile phone and go on holiday from time to time therefore deserve to have nothing.

University is a choice, not a requirement.

My youngest girl is 26, never went to University, and bought her house about 2 years ago for circa £140k, she probably earns similar to a graduate but without the debt.